What should you wear with a grey suit?

This is a common question that we are asked. And rightfully so. Second to the proverbial dark suit, a grey suit usually comes in as a close second in most guys’ closets. So, how do you go about building out a look? With this article we want to give you some guidelines on choosing a dress shirt, tie, and pocket square to wear with a grey suit.

To start things off, you really have quite a few different options available with a grey suit since it is a bit of a blank canvas. However, here are some guidelines to bear in mind when finding something to wear with a grey suit:

Keep your dress shirt in a lighter color like white, light blue, or some sort of check on white. The whole idea here is that you don’t want to wear a shirt that’s darker than your suit fabric as it will create a bit of an odd visual effect.

Here’s the same suit and shirt, but with a solid neck tie in dark purple and a festive pocket square. In my opinion, this would be more of a “going out” look.

As you can see, changing the tie can have quite the impact on the overall look. And remember to choose a pocket square that refers to your tie and/or dress shirt, but that doesn’t match it exactly.

And the pocket square?

When choosing the color of your pocket square, it really depends on your choice of dress shirt and/or neck tie.

One of the common mistakes most men make when choosing a pocket square is that they match it exactly to their neck tie. A better method is to choose a pocket square that refers to your dress shirt or neck tie.

But if you still want a recommendation on color, here are two of my favorites:

First, blue. Or shades of blue. I think that it’s just a great color to wear with a grey suit.

Here are some guidelines to bear in mind:

Go a little lighter in color for casual and/or summertime.

And fun prints like paisley for celebratory events like attending a wedding.

Whereas, a crisp white pocket square is always appropriate.

But my absolute favorite color of pocket square for a grey suit is purple.